Equality Agenda F+E Con 2024 Video.m4a

So we worked with April Long, an incredibly wonderful and brave non-binary parent of a rainbow family, and brought a complaint against the ABS, arguing that the lack of data collection in the census was the omission of data, and the lack of the data being properly collected was a form of discrimination, or was unlawful discrimination. [...] The only thing that that particularly hits me is the fact that you know, we have you know, we have uh, you know an abundance of institutions and we have institutions that are above us that kind of keep us down and and keep us from moving forward, and the progress that you know we want to see um, and while we're still kind of walking forwards, and not looking at how um, how racism and white suprema. [...] [ 00:36:02 ] So I just want to comment on the Master's House um, I think it's great to have heard the battle that Chris and others fought to get us here because we do have the SDA and it has evolved over the time which is what law has the capacity to do it has the capacity to evolve so the 2022 positive duty that was introduced was in response to the respect at work sexual harassment inquiry and i. [...] [ 00:42:51 ] We really have to rely on the law, and the laws, and we really have to rely on the law to need to make sure that people do take personal responsibility and collective responsibility, and we don't Just rely on the law, because the law just doesn't do everything, and that includes the sex discrimination act, the disability discrimination act. [...] ensure that [ 00:55:03 ] there's many religious organizations out there that want to do the right thing that are doing the right thing and at the moment the law does not hold them to an adequate standard and that needs to change and i would just echo sam's remarks about birth certificates and say that that is you know a really fundamental human rights well yeah the new south wales is the last stat.